Confucius: This is the most interesting thing from China in quite a while, from my perspective. In a ritual equal only to that of the churc...

Gender Equality I don't feel I've been holding up my end lately on the gender war discussions. I derived new inspiration from Megan...

End Times Doesn't this photograph evoke Judgment Day? This shot of a Montana supercell, which is today's home page for the Bing se...

Nonviolence: Advocated by the paper in Richmond . Republicans and Democrats have lamented the frequency of violent rhetoric in politics. Few...

Alexander the Great Conquered Afghanistan: Not in his own lifetime... by proxy : Though Alexander the Great could not totally conquer this r...

The Anti-War Movement: We have long known that the core of the anti-war movement was naive college students who haven't yet learned how ...

A Hero in Germany: I mentioned below that I was reading Eichmann in Jerusalem earlier this week. One of the issues raised by the book is n...

Self Criticism: (Image courtesy of Foreign Policy , whose article on Chinese humor is well worth reading on its own merits!) An important pa...

Upgrade: Walter Russel Mead has an interesting challenge that appeals to me. He is speaking of the need to move past what he calls the ...

Bankruptcy for States? This WSJ article proposes an amendment to the federal bankruptcy law expressly extending to states the right (which ...

A Horse Post: RCL writes to complain that we haven't had a good horse post in too long, and he's been saving up for you. You should...

Union: Ross Douthat is charged by Dr. Althouse with something ... she asks you to choose what. Why does it feel like a marriage to Ross Dou...

The Primera : We usually hear Diego Ortiz's segunda . But here is the first one: If you've forgotten the segunda for some reason, ...

The Bold Shall Inherit: There is also something to be said for bulling your way through.

The Meek Shall Inherit: Via Cassandra, a quote from C. S. Lewis : What, you may ask, is the relevance of this idea to the modern world? It i...

Due Process: A note from your psychologist doesn't really count as a medical diagnosis, let alone adequate due process for stripping som...

Gone I had to help him go in the end, after all. We buried him where we're going to plant a new apple tree.

Lady Charlotte Guest: I knew her, as you probably do as well, as the translator of the Mabinogion , which brought us the old Welsh tales of ...

I Stand Corrected: How many spaces go after a period ? Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It's one of the canonical ...

Good Old Hans: Talhoffer, that is. National Geographic has been working on a story regarding his fightbook. They've re-enacted certai...